Blazing Quote by William Butler Yeats

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

— Carol Zaleski

“The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events…

— Lucius Shepard

What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at…

— John Armstrong

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright…

— Jack London

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with…

— Anonymous

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

“The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes.”

— Ann Voskamp

“In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of…

— Aberjhani

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus

“In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”

— Jonathan Safran Foer